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Par air opus effertus^ sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, nigro-piceus, nitidus ; elytris stria 1* Integra, 2'> 

 brevi et obliqua, suturali utrinque abbreviata ; pedibus rufo- 

 brunneis. 



L. If miU. 



Oval, convex, nearly black, shining, smooth ; head flat, 

 lateral stria continuous down the sides of epistoma, latter 

 rather broad ; thorax transverse, broad at the base, anterior 

 angles not projecting, marginal stria fine and complete, no 

 interstice, along the edge of the base are a few distinct punc- 

 tures ; elytra, the first stria is faint but complete, and passes 

 round the apices to the suture, second short and oblique, sutural 

 dorsal, widely interrupted at both ends ; the propygidium is 

 clearly, not closely punctured, except behind, which is, with 

 the pygidium, nearly smooth ; prosternum rather wide, with 

 a very short, transverse, anterior lobe, arched at the base, 

 striate on the sides, the base is triangular, margined behind 

 and at the sides, the keel is feebly canaliculate in the middle 

 before the coxa^, with two striae on each side parallel to the 

 canaliculation ; the mesosternum is bisinuous in front and very 

 clearly margined, and the metasternum is smooth, without 

 any visible dividing suture, but tliere are two lateral striae 

 common to it and the mesosternum, the inner stria being 

 shortest and oblique, the outer one is bent and posteriorly 

 passes along the edge of the femoral cavity ; the tibige are 

 widely dilated, but are not angulate on the outer edge. 



Viewed from above this sjiecies resembles a small Eret- 

 mohis ; but the angles of its thorax are not produced. The 

 useful characters for the recognition of the species lie in the 

 sterna. 



Hah. Baliia. 



Faratropus dadaluSj sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexus, opacus, niger, jicdibus rufo-piceis ; pronolo dense 

 strigoso ; elytris stria 1" Integra, caBteris nullis ; tibiis valide 

 dilatatis. 



L. 2 mill. 



Oval, convex, black, and opaque, densely strigose or punc- 

 tured above ; head flat and strigose, epistoma concave, striate 

 above the eyes ; thorax transverse, with the anterior angles 

 very blunt, lateral striae extremely fine, the anterior portion 

 and sides are densely strigose, the stride are longitudinal and 

 gradually break up into punctures on the disk before the 

 scutellum ; elytra densely sculptured, but much less evenly 



